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Githopping
Githopping is a disease similar to distrohopping but applied to git hosting websites. The disease caused a pandemic after the Micro$oft's takeover of GitHub in 2018, when people started protest-migrating to GitLab, however as GitLab swiftly turned to shit as well, the resulting git diaspora to alternative platforms such as Codeberg left many people with the habit of just constantly switching and migrating. By now many got addicted to just jumping from site to site and exploring them like tourists explore new cities, instead of doing actual programming.
Cure: free yourself of any git hosting, don't centralize your repos on one hosting, use multiple git hostings as mirrors for your code, i.e. add multiple push remotes to your local git and with every push update your repos all over the internet. Just spray the internet with your code and let it sink in, let it be captured in caches and archive sites and let it be preserved. DO NOT tie yourself to any specific git hosting by using any non-git features such as issue trackers or specialized CLI tools such as github cli. DO NOT use git hosting sites as a social network, just stop attention whoring for stars and likes, leave this kind of shit to tiktokers.
How to spot a git slave: one hundred 0 star repos, spontaneously making new repos every day.